Affiliated Faculty

Environmental Studies Affiliated Faculty

Matthew Bahr

Associate Dean, College of Arts and SciencesAssociate Professor of Sociology

AD Box 059

Phone: (509) 313-5952

Office LocationCollege Hall 416

Ph.D. Sociology, Purdue University, 2002

Dr. Bahr teaches courses in quantitative research methods, statistics, sociology of religion, and population and demography. His research interests include sociology of religion and public policy. His most recent project appearing in Social Science Research, explores correlates of financial giving to religious organizations.

Office HoursI am currently serving as the Director of the Center for Teaching and Advising, so I will not be teaching classes for academic years 2013 - 14 and 2014 - 15. Feel free to call or e-mail me to make an appointment for a meeting.

Education:Ph.D. in Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA. December 1995.M.S. in Soil Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. June 1986B.A. in Chemistry and European History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. December 1983

Research Interests:Plant population ecology and genetics, conservation biology

Professor Besty Downey received a PhD in history from the University of Denver in 1971. She is an American Historian whose interest, in keeping with her American Studies major, are wide-ranging. She has studied the Cold War, the New Deal, women in American Literature, and women in European History in post-doctoral seminars. She has published on the Cold War, domestic violence on the frontier, and the works of Mari Sandoz. She has developed courses on the Roosevelts, African-American history, American women's history, and Yellowstone National Park.

Education:B.A., Economics and Spanish, University of Montana, 1999: M.S., Economics, University of Oregon, 2005: Ph.D., Economics, University of Oregon, 2009Brief Bio:Erica specializes in environmental and health economics. She teaches
Health Economics, Microeconomics, Econometrics and MBA courses in
economics. Her current research interests include estimating the
benefits of reducing risks to human health; these estimates can be used
in cost-benefit analyses of environmental and health policies.